Hurricane Irma as big as France

- The size of Hurricane Irma is about as large as France. That reports various French weather stations.

'To make the dimensions in perspective,' writes Twitter account of the French Observatory of storms and tornadoes in insightful photo editing. Seeing how Hurricane Irma is laying over a world map of France.

France has an area of ​​643. 801 km². For comparison: The Netherlands is 41.543 km².

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'To make the dimensions in perspective,' writes Twitter account of the French Observatory of storms and tornadoes in insightful photo editing. Seeing how Hurricane Irma is laying over a world map of France.

France has an area of ​​643. 801 km². For comparison: The Netherlands is 41.543 km².